benchmarking... takes up to much space ???

How valueble is benchmarking, well I used to benchmark alot years ago when I was playing around with OCing CPU and GPU just to see if I could beat the scores of other forum members. Now I dont really bother as I dont think it amounts to much when all I want these days is a stable fast-ish PC for the work I'm doing.

On the othe hand some benchmarks are usefull in determining stability... stress tests if you want to call them that and I will if I have upgraded run a few tests.

I will run these just to see if speeds are ok compaired to other users with similar specs or maybe a bit of tweaking is needed.


PCMark04
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4051.html
Bit of an all round test of your PC

or if your short on HD space then this one

PC Mark 2002
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1036.html


or their are many free apps to test various parts fro HD/CPU to Memory/GFX card here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads4.html